Example for communicating with a remote PEAR channel

list_packages.php

<?php
// Remove this if using Pyrus from source
namespace PEAR2;

/**
* Example for communicating with a remote PEAR channel
*/
require_once 'phar:///Users/bbieber/Documents/workspace/Pyrus/pyrus.phar/PEAR2_Pyrus-2.0.0a3/php/PEAR2/Autoload.php';

$config = Pyrus\Config::singleton('/tmp');
$config->cache_dir = '/tmp';

$channel_xml = new Pyrus\ChannelFile('http://pear.unl.edu/channel.xml', false, true);

$channel = new Pyrus\Channel($channel_xml);

// Ensure the channel currently exists in the registry
if (!$config->channelregistry->exists($channel->name)) {
    $config->channelregistry->add($channel);
}

$packages = new Pyrus\Channel\RemotePackages($config->channelregistry[$channel->name]);


foreach ($packages as $package) {
    echo $package->name . "\n";
    foreach ($package as $version=>$info) {
        echo " - " . $version . "\n";
    }
    echo "\n";
}